Re: Jim Linam from Murfreesboro, TN

Jim, not sure if this is 100% correct but I believe your grandfather's brother's name was Harvey Dentis Linam.If that is him, he was born May 2, 1893 in 6th District, Lawrence, TN and died May 7, 1979 in Seattle, WA at ahe 86.

on June 2, 1900, he was living with his grandfather Thav Linam, who was at the time living with his father-in-law, John Slagle.There was a Walter Linam (spelled in the 1900 census as Lynam, a common misspelling by census takers) who was age 16 living as a Boarder with the Benton Tidwell family.I believe your grandfather went more by Walter Thomas Linam, than Thomas Walter Linam....that possible?

The Civil War tore the Linam family apart so this may account for the lost between your grandfather and his brother.